Health Care Systems Engineering (eBook)

This book demonstrates how optimization, system engineering and statistics can help to improve health care provision and health systems. It gathers the proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Health Care Systems Engineering (HCSE 2019), which was held in Montreal, Canada, from May 30 to June 1, 2019. The conference provided an opportunity to discuss operations management issues in health care delivery systems, and allowed scientists and practitioners to exchange their latest ideas, methods and technologies for improving the operation of health care organizations. The event was hosted at the Mother and Child University Hospital CHU Sainte-Justine in Montreal, and each session was co-chaired by a discussant from clinical practice, so as to promote close collaborations with clinicians. The respective chapters cover a broad range of concrete problems that pose challenges for researchers and practitioners alike: hospital drug logistics, operating theatre management, blood donation, home care services, modelling, simulation and process mining, and data mining at patient care and health care organizations. 

Valérie Bélanger is an Assistant Professor at the HEC Montréal. She holds an M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering (Université Laval) and a Ph.D. in Decision Sciences (HEC Montréal). Her main research interests focus on health care logistics and emergency service management. Her main methodological expertise is in operations research. She is currently working together with various organizations from the health care sector on projects related to patient and material transportation, home care and network design. 

Nadia Lahrichi holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the Polytechnique Montréal, where she is a Professor at the Department of Mathematical and Industrial Engineering. Her research focuses on applying modelling and operational research tools in health care. Her recent work has examined patient flow optimization, scheduling and workforce planning problems. She has received the CORS Practice Prize for outstanding application of operational research (2018) and the GISEH best paper award (2012, 2016). 

Ettore Lanzarone received his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the Politecnico di Milano in 2008. He is currently a researcher at the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) Institute for Applied Mathematics and Information Technology 'E. Magenes' (IMATI); an Adjunct Professor at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and at the University of Bergamo, Italy; and a collaborating member of CIRRELT. His research interests include operations research (robust and stochastic optimization approaches, decomposition approaches and metaheuristics, with applications in health care and the manufacturing industry), stochastic modelling and bioengineering. 

Semih Yalç?nda? is an Assistant Professor at the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department of Yeditepe University. He received his B.S. degree in Systems Engineering from Yeditepe University and his M.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from Sabanc? University, and completed a joint Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano and Ecole Centrale Paris. Following his studies, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Management Sciences at the HEC Montréal and CIRRELT (Interuniversity Research Centre on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation). His current interests are mainly in the area of applied operations research, where he is working to model and solve optimization problems in health care operations, scheduling and sequencing, transportation and sustainable operations.